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To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable. There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a critical moment - an attempt to make a different future. In On Giving Up, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up, and helps us to address the central question- what must we give up in order to feel more alive?

Clear, engaging text allows kids to learn facts in an accessible and entertaining way. Dynamic, exciting illustrations bring the facts to life for young readers.

In 1997, during a symposium at Centre Pompidou, Leo Bersani presented a prescient critique of the assimilative tendencies that made 'gays melt into the very culture they like to think of themselves as undermining.' Mired in micropolitics, for Bersani, queer activism had relinquished the radical task of reconfiguring the horizon of the possible. Later published as 'Gay Betrayals', Bersani's intervention champions a truly disruptive vision of homosexuality, one that betrays the relational, identitarian and communitarian foundations of bourgeois heterosexual respectability through 'antimonogamous promiscuity'. Building on extensive artistic research into the politics of queer spaces and culture some 20 years later, artist duo Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings revisit Bersani's polemic with a response in three acts. Through a kaleidoscopic array of drawings, preparatory sketches and egg tempera paintings, a narrative of everyday (homo)sociality comes into view. A series of statuesque figures are caught as they feel the outlines of existing power structures, try out new strategies of inclusivity and, ultimately, wrestle with the blurred lineaments of identity and community.

Can rats learn to surf? How fat was the fattest cat? How many Lego bricks would it take to reach the Moon?Find out the answers to these questions and many, many more in this fascinating fact book. With clear, engaging text and vibrant illustrations, kids can discover the world's fastest, biggest, oldest, and weirdest in an accessible and engaging way. Perfect for children aged 7+.ABOUT THE Big Ideas! is a dynamic, high-energy fun fact series for children. Packed with surprising facts, stats, and records that kids will just love to share, this series really has the wow factor. It's like a roller-coaster ride for your brain!

From a death row prison on a storm-swept coast to the dark old-growth forests of Oregon, to the hardscrabble semi-pro diamonds of the unsettled West, a dark figure and a baseball prodigy pursue their intertwined destiny. Will one have to destroy the other to find his path? With their combined power, will they be able to rise above the forces of history, or will the world take them back, interring both beneath the water and the dirt? One of the most singular baseball novels ever written. Adam Phillips possesses a narrative voice that takes hold on page one and never falters. - Steve Kluger, author of Last Days of Summer Adam Phillips writes with verve and bravado, and stories within stories pour out of his pen, each more incredible and entertaining than the last. Manifest is a great ride, fast, funny, and right on the outside corner. - Kevin Baker, author of Sometimes You See It Coming With Manifest, Adam Phillips gives us a compelling novel populated by a rich collection of vivid, sometimes nearly mythic characters who actually seem to breathe on the page - characters on the edge of hopelessness whose sole chance for salvation lies in the redemptive power of baseball. - Joe Schuster, author of The Might Have Been

We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy. We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we think about change changes over time too. We want to think of our lives as progress myths, as narratives of positive personal growth, at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks. So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make, and they don't always go, or come, together. This sparkling book is about that fact

To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because of the sentences we have read.)How can we talk differently about how we might want to change, knowing that all change precipitates us into an uncertain future?In this companion book to On Wanting to Change , Adam Phillips explores how we might get better at talking about what it is to get better.

Derek Jarman's Caravaggio -- Notes -- Credits.

This book presents a day long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes two brilliant essays that reveal what is at the heart of psychoanalysis.

The narrative intertwines the lives of a habitual drifter and a college basketball star, exploring their struggles with feelings of being lost and their search for purpose. Set against the backdrop of northern Idaho, the characters experience moments of despair and hope as they confront existential questions about their future. The title draws inspiration from James Tate's poem "Manna," symbolizing fleeting beauty and reassurance amidst their turmoil.